UUU-Challenge

TUESDAY’S A TO Z CHALLENGE

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Tuesdays, recurring weekly

Description: Every Tuesday I offer the A to Z challenge walking step by step through the alphabet.
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Every Tuesday, step by step, I’m walking with my readers from A to Z, last week we had the “T”-challenge, so this week we’ll take “U” – I’m sure you’ll also find a photo, a story or a music title tagged with “U”! Feel free to add in the comments below the link to your personal interpretation of the letter “U”!!! Myself I’ll focus on “underwater”:

UNDERWATER

Some of us buy a ticket for an underwater aquarium. I was amused, when I noticed, that my internet connection to Graz in Austria, blogger Wolfgang had been in Berlin at the same location like me – watching the same shark!
above: title=”the girl and the shark” by Wolfgang H. visiting the Zoo in West-Berlin
below: video by frizztext, also shot in the ZOO “Tiergarten” in Berlin, background music: me and my guitar

thank U for the Ukulele on Utube!
I played an instrumental version of George Harrison’s “While my guitar gently weeps” on my guitar too – but your Ukulele artist Jake Shimabukuro is really fantastic, wow!

hi Tish,
you’ve written a great tribute to Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), the war poet, and it is sad, that there nowadays are still gas wars (Syria), gas developing centers (in USA, UK, Germany etc.), selling military gas into war regions etc.

“‘The idea of sacrifice,’ says Paxman, ‘entirely acceptable at the time, has been lost to us, discarded along with religious belief and replaced with a cost-benefit analysis…”
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well, Tish, anti-militarism (together with atheism in my case) took place, scepticism more than nationalism is modern in Europe. Nevertheless I understand in your personal case of family history, that you are proud of your heroes. But as a political movement, developing national proud, I stay sceptic. Recently near Leipzig, in Germany, a famous battle vs. Napoleon was re-enacted. New for Germany. I noticed, there is a continuous tradition for this scene (“dressed in old war clothes”-groups) in USA and UK. .. – in the contrary I like to remember Socrates, who stopped in the very middle of a battle asking himself: “What I am doing here?” – Maybe the decision to hesitate for a moment is a little bridge between the Socrates message and the message of your war-poet?

It’s interesting thinking of family members who fought/died in war, I’m not sure I am proud. I admire people’s bravery and tenacity, but in the end people did not really have much of a choice. You had to be really brave to be a conscientious objector in Britain. And those who enlisted and then asked Socrates’ question, and stopped fighting were shamed and shot, and their families were shamed too. A horrible conspiracy. I find it interesting that Owen could write as he did about war, and yet it is clear that he had quite a martial character when it came to it. He led from the front. He returned to the battle when he could have ducked it. Nothing’s straightforward, is it?

“He returned to the battle
when he could have ducked it…”
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yes, it seems, it was a sense for him.
As a German I’m thankful of course
that UK, USA etc. fought vs. Hitler –
comparehttps://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/daily-prompt-faq/
Joe Winter at first escaped from Germany –
and then he came back as US-soldier to fight vs. Hitler
(the Richie boys)
[he’s our family-hero]

I’m very surprised (and amused)
about the post Frizz-frizz-frizzhttp://vastlycurious.com/tag/frizz-frizz-frizz/
by “vastlycurious”: with background music!
P.S.:
I know, I’m nearly aged 70 and the doctors begin with their typical experiments – but though I’ve been in the Charlottenburg Castle, Berlin, my aim is not to end there in an urn, even if they would spend three for me! Would like to be buried in my garden beside my cat under the hazel tree…

Terrific shot Frizz! the little girls body language conveys her awe! 🙂
Regarding Wolfgang and you being at that place at the same time, I was surprised myself to find an image of the Taj online, with the same village woman carrying a bundle of sticks on her head. Same sari, same children, identical goats!! 🙂

sometimes friends told me, when someone used some of my pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/
when I made contact they deleted their illegal upload or set a link to me – or even payed for it, when they liked to use it for a magazine (100$) or for a book cover (yearly fee):

of course there is a software available searching for photo doubles – but I’m not so selfish: the world wide web is a street to meet others, exchange information, compare lifestyles and emotions, being influenced – and not making battles …

My grandchildren love shark week, a crazy week of television of documentaries about sharks. I will share your cool shark post with them. Looks a little close to me, even with the glass! Thank U for the music, too.

hello Naomi,
I’ve read several times about the Uros on the Lake Titicaca in Peru, but never such a wonderful detailed tribute to the little handmade islands – thank you very much for sharing your photos and article = an interesting bridge to understand a thought provoking culture! P.S.: I was amused to notice: “Solar panels provide music and television to make the youth more content with island life…”